New Colts coach Chuck Pagano seemed destined for the job, his family says

5:33 AM,
Jan. 27, 2012

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Phillip B. Wilson
phillip.wilson@indystar.com

In one of the proudest moments of his life, Sam Pagano had a flashback from four decades ago, when his 9-year-old son, Chuck, scurried around a football sideline and squirted water in the faces of the Fairview High School Knights.

The father, who coached teams in Boulder, Colo., to three state titles, knew then his son's destiny.

"He is football. He loves it," Pagano said via phone about Chuck, now 51 and introduced Thursday as the new Indianapolis Colts head coach in a news conference at the team's Northwestside complex. ...